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FCP X Lost Projects/Can't See External Hard Drive

Hello,

My External Hard Drive containing my Projects is no longer visible in my Projects Window. The projects are all in their folders on the external HD but of course they no longer appear in the Projects Window since FCP X cannot see the drive. As a test, when I select "import media" FCP X can find the external hard drive so it's reading the drive. It just seems something got "disconnected." I'm not sure what further info you might need to diagnose, but please let me know and i will get it to you. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

FCP X 10.0.9

Mac OS X 10.7.5

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jan 24, 2014 7:13 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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Jan 27, 2014 10:03 AM in response to jrc362

The drive appears in the project library, yes?

Post a screen shot of the root level of the drive, showing the projects and the content in column view.

jrc362 Author

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Jan 27, 2014 10:27 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Yes, the drive appears in the Project Library. Screenshot below. Thanks.

Jan 27, 2014 10:40 AM in response to jrc362

It looks like you need to take the two folders with names like 102GOPRO... and 103GOPRO and put them inside another folder - calll it "Stuff" for the time being to make sure this is "safe" name. I guess this is making FCP X treat the drive as a camera drive.

Tom Wolsky

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Jan 27, 2014 11:09 AM in response to jrc362

That's the contents on the Final Cut Projects folder, which is at the root level, yes? I'm not seeing that in the screen shot. You have three drives connected? Do any if these hold clones of these projects?

jrc362 Author

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Jan 27, 2014 12:17 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Success! Tom, when I copied the files from the errant drive, I placed all the files in one folder (Folder A) on a separate drive so that I could keep all the files organized. After I reformatted the drive, I copied Folder A back to the drive but did not take the files out of Folder A. Based on your suggestion, I took all the files out of Folder A and voila! The projects are back. There a couple of small wrinkles which I could live with but i want to mention them since we've come this far. I've included a screen shot which i think might help. First as you can see, two of the projects have missing files. A check of the event library shows what looks like two copies of the same event i.e. "HS Field of Dreams Promo". As you can see, a duplicate seems to exist here which has (fcp1) behind it, and it appears to have all the files in it. Also, if you look at "Holston River" in the project Window, you'll notice no images are there, (only blue frames), but when I selct the file and drag the cursor over it, I can see the footage.

jrc362 Author

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Jan 28, 2014 11:11 AM in response to jrc362

Hey Tom,

Was wondering if had any thoughts on the above issue re: missing files and the "blue frames" issue. if not, no worries, you've been a great help to me already!

FCP X Lost Projects/Can't See External Hard Drive